svn commit: r45790 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Warren Block <[email protected]>
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Author: wblock
Date: Sat Oct 11 03:50:54 2014
New Revision: 45790
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45790
Log:
Whitespace cleanup, translators please ignore.
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Sat Oct 11 03:47:08 2014 (r45789)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Sat Oct 11 03:50:54 2014 (r45790)
@@ -1841,7 +1841,7 @@
<p>
The project to update the Intel graphics chipset driver
(i915kms) to a recent snapshot of the Linux upstream code
- continues. A patch with a large chunk of updates has been
+ continues. A patch with a large chunk of updates has been
made available to check for regressions against current
functionality, but is not yet expected to provide fully
functional new functionality. The GEM I/O ioctl code path
@@ -2038,6 +2038,7 @@
<p>Full support for thin provisioning, including capacity
usage reporting and thresholds notifications.</p>
</task>
+
<task>
<p>Inter-host XCOPY operations.</p>
</task>
@@ -2086,15 +2087,19 @@
<task>
<p>Large page support</p>
</task>
+
<task>
<p>SMP support</p>
</task>
+
<task>
<p>Debug and cleanup</p>
</task>
+
<task>
<p>Security vetting</p>
</task>
+
<task>
<p>Performance tweaks</p>
</task>
@@ -2134,34 +2139,34 @@
<body>
<p>Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is a computer
security technique that aids in mitigating low-level
- vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows. In order to
+ vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows. In order to
prevent an attacker from knowing where a given
exploitable vulnerability lies in memory, ASLR randomizes
the memory layout of running applications.</p>
<p>&os; lacks behind the industry in exploit mitigation
- technologies. ASLR is a great first step in implementing
- such technologies. Future exploit mitigation technologies
+ technologies. ASLR is a great first step in implementing
+ such technologies. Future exploit mitigation technologies
will rely on ASLR.</p>
- <p>A lot has happened in the last few months. Shawn Webb gave
+ <p>A lot has happened in the last few months. Shawn Webb gave
presentations at both BSDCan 2014 and EuroBSDCon 2014. The
presentations were met with a lot of support and backing.
At the end of EuroBSDCon, an awesome developer named Ilya
- Bakulin fixed our ARM bug. Shawn Webb and Oliver Pinter
+ Bakulin fixed our ARM bug. Shawn Webb and Oliver Pinter
have submitted our patch to Phabricator, &os;'s new
- code review utility. Shawn Webb added an API for allowing
+ code review utility. Shawn Webb added an API for allowing
a debugger to disable ASLR in order to support
deterministic debugging with applications such as lldb or
- gdb. Oliver Pinter enhanced the performance of our ASLR
- implementation. A package building exp-run was ran and came
- out favorably in terms of performance. Shawn Webb bumped up
+ gdb. Oliver Pinter enhanced the performance of our ASLR
+ implementation. A package building exp-run was ran and came
+ out favorably in terms of performance. Shawn Webb bumped up
the maximum number of bits allowed to be randomized to 20
and set the default to 14.</p>
<p>To aid in the upstreaming process of the ASLR project and
other security-related projects, Shawn Webb and Oliver Pinter
- founded The HardenedBSD project. It exists primarily to
+ founded The HardenedBSD project. It exists primarily to
serve as a staging area for bleeding-edge development of
security-related projects for &os; prior to being merged
upstream.</p>
@@ -2174,15 +2179,19 @@
<task>
<p>Get more people testing and reviewing our patch</p>
</task>
+
<task>
<p>Run more performance tests</p>
</task>
+
<task>
<p>Figure out why the two ports failed in the EXP-RUN.
Involve the port maintainers.</p>
</task>
+
<task>
- <p>Test on different architectures (we need help with this)</p>
+ <p>Test on different architectures (we need help with
+ this)</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
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